Megan Kitchens

Clive Staples Lewis - - C.S. Lewis

1. Leading author figure at English faculty in Oxford University
2. Works have translated to over 30 different languages
3. Friends with Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass)
4. The Golden Compass focues on Pullman's Atheism
5. Wrote the Chronicles while being converted
6. Chronicles of Narnia sold on stage, TV, radio and movies
7. Wife = American writer, Joy Gresham
8. Died from Kidney Failure
9. Lived in Ireland
10. Episcopalian (Church of England w/o swearing loyalty to the british monarch)
11. authoritized Mere Christianity
12. wrote the Allegory of Love
13. wrote the Screwtape Letters
14. wrote The Space Trilogy
15. wrote Till We Have Faces
16. wrote Surprised by Joy: The Shape of Mt Early Life

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Online Source 1: TechLand, Time.com site, 2010, Web. 27 April 2010
http://techland.com/2008/12/01/the-magicians-book-actual-smart-things-about-cs-lewis-and-jrr-tolkien/

1. Narnia is controvesial
2. Some think Tolkiens writing is "more manly"
3. Lewis & Tolkien friends
4. L&T drank together
5. L&T wrote together
6. L&T bounced ideas off of each other
7. L&T desribed as fathers of modern fantasy
8. L&T the original nerd couple
9. Partied hard
10. Described as the Dreamer
11. Barely keep books straigh, keeping them in narnia, not narnia.1
12. Wrote Chronicles of Narnia in little more than 2 years
13. Random writer, gabbed what was around him, and put it in
14. Tolkien hated Narnia books
15. Made modern fantasy from scratch
16. Narnia books shorter than tolkiens
17. The Worm Ourobouros could have influenced lewis's writings, through Tolkien, or directly
18. Some think Tolkien's writing are far better then Lewis's
19. Not many Lewis writings (other than novels)
20. Some think the christian angle is over-focused

Online Source 2: U.S. News and World Report, U.S. News, 2010, Web. 28 April 2010
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051212/12lewis_2.htm

1. Devoloped a mother-son relation with Janie King Moore (Minto)
2. War Veteran
3. Had Oxford degree in, Philosophy
4. Had degree in Classics
5. Had an Oxford degree in English
6. Some wonder how such a complex man wrote a childrens classic
7. Colin Duriez's The C. S. Lewis Chronicles, David Downing's Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles questions this (number 6)
8. Alan Jacobs's The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis questioned this (number 6)
9. Had influences in life (Inklings)
10. Connections in all his literary works
11. Had improbable connections in theological influences
12. Created art
13. Had influences inside his art
14. Lewis self-acknowledged lack of rapport with children
15. Never liked childrens books
16. Indepent in judging literature
17. Liked ethical novels
18. In his day ethnical novels were not popular, oppisite of popular
19. Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien to continue writing The Hobbit
20. L wrote Narnia to try to have children not make the same mistakes he did as a kid

Print Source 1: NYP Holdings Inc., New York Times, 2010, Web. 28 April 2010
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/war_flick_with_honor_Y3NCtScvT6DG9y4TCs3ndJ

1. War movies usualy dont sell, narnia war movies do
2. War movies usually anti-war, narnia (prince caspign) arnt
3. Many magical being are in narnia
4. Many magical, and none magical being are in the chronicles of Narnia
5. Narnia is full of Medival events
6. Narnia contains many councils
7. Narnia has many Knights
8. The battle starts with a Lions Roar
9. "Caspian" is centered on the theme of Mars, god of war, and theres a war
10. Narnia books based on "spirit symbols of permentent value" Caspin is the Mars book
11. Caspian celebrates war
12. Celebrates peace in Caspian, by showing lots of green, trees
13. "Mars Silvanus" god of woods and forests, see 12
14. WWI Veteran
15. Was not a Pacifist
16. Believed in the 'just war'
17. Thought war was terrible, but sometimes neccassary
18. Thought a real warrior is brave but self-restrained
19. Lewis said that Caspian (book) showed "the necessity of chivalry
20. Michael Ward wrote Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

Print Source 2: Hunter, Ian. "C. S. Lewis and Anglicanism." Catholic Insight Dec. 2006: 8. Student Resource Center - Gold. Web. 29 Apr. 2010
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1. 20th century writer
2. Said to be most influencial at his time
3. Christian apologist in the 20th century
4. Many convers to the Roman Catholic Church have been influenced by C.S. Lewis's writings
5. "But guess who turns up most often? C.S. Lewis!"
6. Never converted to Rome, lifelong Anglican
7. People are baffled why he convinced so many to goin Roman church, but never joined himself
8. Other writers of that time converted to Roman church, such as G.K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh, and J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Many dont agree with Pearce's idea after his research that he stuck with the ways he grew up with
10. Some think that it is because in L's time the Anglican church was still considered "one holy, catholic and apostolic chuch"
11. L caused the Anglican chuch to apoligize itself into near bankruptcy
12. L belongedto a pretty much different church altogether
13. Some believe today that : would of converted
14. Church of Egland called a ghost of its former self
15. Today man think, some that knew him and were lifelong friends, think hed surely be Roman Catholic
16. The absolute answer will never be known, unless time travel, or spirit talking is invnted
17. Some think L couldnt shake his virulently anti-Catholic Belfast childhood
18. L wasnt alive to see the church apologize for its gay bishop
19. L's influence peaked in the 1940's, '50's and early '60's
20. L influenced many to convr to Roman Church